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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 6, 2024

One Identity Manager and Saviynt compete in the identity and access management category. Based on feature comparisons across sections, One Identity Manager has the upper hand due to its extensive customization, despite challenges in system performance and UI.

Features: One Identity Manager provides robust customization and integration features, including a wide array of out-of-the-box connectors, user role configurations, and advanced reporting capabilities. It offers logical schema and table names that make database navigation intuitive, and customizable web projects via the WebDesigner. Saviynt focuses on its comprehensive database utility and integration, emphasizing streamlined access governance and compliance functionalities. It enables easy report generation and attestation features, reducing the need for third-party tools.

Room for Improvement: One Identity Manager requires improvements in system performance and UI, as well as enhancing user-friendliness and support for complex deployments. Saviynt needs better customization options, customer support, and comprehensive documentation to simplify its implementation complexity.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: One Identity Manager is often deployed on-premises but also supports public and hybrid cloud environments. Customer service is inconsistent, with premium support being more responsive. Saviynt offers flexibility with cloud and hybrid deployments but should improve in customer service responsiveness and technical support to better meet client needs.

Pricing and ROI: One Identity Manager offers competitive pricing aimed at large enterprises, with costs based on user numbers and additional customization. It provides significant ROI by reducing help desk calls and improving productivity. Saviynt is perceived as pricier than some competitors like SailPoint due to its enhanced SaaS features, but it also provides solid ROI through increased productivity and decreased administrative burden.

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Categories and Ranking

One Identity Manager

Ranking in User Provisioning Software

1st

Ranking in Identity Management (IM)

3rd

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

135

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Saviynt

Ranking in User Provisioning Software

3rd

Ranking in Identity Management (IM)

8th

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Privileged Access Management (PAM) (10th), Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) (10th), Identity and Access Management (2nd), Identity Security and Posture Management (ISPM) (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Identity Management (IM) category, the mindshare of One Identity Manager is 4.9%, down from 6.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Saviynt is 6.4%, down from 8.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Identity Management (IM) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
One Identity Manager	4.9%
Saviynt	6.4%
Other	88.7%

Identity Management (IM)

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reviewer2538840

Senior identity and security specialist at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Highly flexible and stable, but lacks in many aspects and requires a strong partner

In terms of providing a single platform for enterprise-level administration and governance of users, data, and privileged accounts, One Identity is not yet there. One Identity recently bought OneLogin. They already had Safeguard and One Identity Manager. They have started integrating these three tools. I am also on the customer advisory board (CAB) of One Identity, so I have more insight into these things. I know that they started to integrate OneLogin and One Identity just recently. OneLogin is their access management tool. They use it for authentication and for SSO. It is a competitor for Entra and Okta, whereas Safeguard is competing with CyberArk, Delinea, and BeyondTrust. One Identity has indeed done good integration between their three products. However, the platform is not unified. You still need three URLs, which is not optimal. They are going there, but it will take them time. The second thing they are not yet good at is their SaaS offering. They are behind in the market. They started with something in Safeguard, but it is a pretty basic offering. It is still a new baby. They have Safeguard On Demand, but it is just a hosted PAM solution. I did PoC for Safeguard twice. This is how I know this, but I have not used it. As PAM, Safeguard is a good product, but it is not a full-featured PAM like CyberArk or BeyondTrust. They are lacking in that aspect. The integration between One Identity's products is similar to BMC's integration. I used to work with BMC products such as BMC Remedy ten years ago. I used to be an ITSM or Control-M guy. When BMC integrated its products, the integration was not well done. It was like two different entities trying to integrate with each other rather than one company giving you a fully-fledged platform. The same thing is happening with One Identity Manager at the moment. They are selling it as a unified platform, but in my opinion, it is not yet good. It is also not bad. There are things that I can take from it, but there is no complete picture. The problem nowadays is that vendors are getting into each other's areas. For example, CyberArk used to be just a PAM provider, so people would integrate with it, but now, CyberArk wants to do the identity bit. It has now become a competitor for other vendors, so they will stop integrating with it. SailPoint, at some point, stopped integrating with CyberArk. SailPoint and CyberArk's integration was good. This is what is happening in the market or between vendors. All of them are getting into each other's area. If you happen to buy another product from a competitor, you need to integrate it on your own. There is no integration plug-in concept between them. This is a bit hard for companies that already have a PAM and they want to buy a new IGA, for example, or vice versa. They are trying to shift towards an Angular-based platform for their web portal or for IT Shop. That has been very long overdue because they did not modernize their web portal for almost three versions. They are doing it, but there is no feature parity till version 9.3, which is the upcoming version. This is a problem. For example, data governance is not included in 9.2 if you want to upgrade, but if you do not upgrade, you lose support. They have these issues with the roadmap in general. They give you options, but they are not always the complete options. To me, it seems that this company is going to suffer in the long run. Another issue is that for admin requests, we have to configure the tool at least in seven different clients, which is unacceptable. We are in 2024, not in 1981 or 1985. Having seven clients for the same tool, or more, is just unheard of. To me, that is a very old design idea. I am on the newest version 9.2, and I am still doing that. To me, that is a big problem as an admin. The relationship with the customers is extremely bad. That is not a technical problem. That is a company problem. They tried to fix that, but it seems they failed. They do not have the personnel. They have a hiring problem. They now rely on partners. They are a type of company where the partner is more of a vendor to you as a client rather than the company itself. If you want to pick any solution by One Identity, you need a very strong partner with you. If you do not, you will struggle with this product's adoption, roadmap, vision, and implementation. We struggle a lot as a client. I have been there. I have seen that. It is not easy with them. One Identity is based in Europe. Our account manager at One Identity resigned in May and till now, just to show how bad they are, we do not know who our new account manager is. We are in August. Their Starling Connect roadmap or flagship is a failure. We had to withdraw from using it with SuccessFactors, for example. It had a lot of stability issues. Now, my understanding is better, but it caused a bad implementation, so we are not using it. They are not investing a lot in enhancing or extending Starling Connect. They are using Starling Connect as a propagation gateway to SaaS apps so that you have One Identity Manager on-prem talking to Starling Connect which is handling all SaaS apps. However, the roadmap for Starling Connect is not clear. Now that they have bought OneLogin, OneLogin can do that as well as an IAM tool. You can now bring any IAM or CIAM tool such as Entra, Okta, or OneLogin. They can be your propagation gateway. OneLogin and Starling Connect are competing products, and they need to unify them. They cannot have both products doing the same thing. When I discussed this with the head of engineering from their side, they were still defending having Starling Connect. I do not understand why because if you have a proper IAM such as Entra or Okta, that is your propagation gateway. That is it. You can do everything you want with it. You can merge the functionality, and that is it. You do not need Starling Connect. To me, this is confusing. You use a propagation gateway like Starling Connect because it has ready plug-ins to connect to SaaS apps and you do not need to create a custom connector every time. If you look at the number of apps that One Identity supports with Starling Connect, there are not more than 50, which is not a lot. There is a big difference when you compare it to Okta Marketplace or Entra Marketplace. You will immediately understand the difference. OneLogin's marketplace is better than Starling Connect, but OneLogin was not a part of One Identity before, so they had their own marketplace. Overall, the Starling Connect roadmap does not make sense to me. They need to remove the dependency on VB.NET for backend development and they need to unify the front end. If they are selling it as a unified product, they need to give me a unified UX. This is something I have mentioned to Mark Logan himself. This is how ServiceNow won over Remedy. Having a unified UX and being able to turn on or off a feature is better than trying to connect three or four different products with different contracts. To me, the main thing is that they need to modernize their application. Once we do that, making it SaaS is doable.

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reviewer2774067

Software Engineer at a tech consulting company with 11-50 employees

Has reduced manual work and shortened project timelines through faster deployment and intuitive workflows

One of the challenges regarding Saviynt is the lack of material available on the web, as searching on Google or YouTube often yields little information. Advertising Saviynt is necessary because I was not aware of it a couple of months ago, and it is a very helpful product for many organizations. In India, IGA solutions are not widely recognized, and Saviynt can utilize this point by promoting itself in the cybersecurity field. A significant challenge is the lack of people discussing Saviynt in the open market, as the forums provide slower responses compared to platforms like Reddit. Advancements related to AI would be very helpful. Saviynt should provide pricing for their university certifications, which is currently not publicly available. Information about enrolling requires an ID that is not easily obtained, as it can only be acquired through an organization. Some small wishlist features are related to APIs. As I work on projects, I find certain features to be much needed, but at a glance, they may not seem necessary. As I continue working with Saviynt, these small API-related features become apparent and would greatly enhance the experience.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"It is highly customizable, a feature that influenced our company's decision. We can easily customize it."

"One Identity is a complete solution that has everything we need."

"Since we started using One Identity Manager in my organization, we have seen operational efficiency gains, including faster onboarding and de-provisioning, help desk cost reduction, and improved compliance and audit efficiency."

"One Identity is simple to implement. About 90 percent of the implementation is configuration rather than scripting and creating the connectors."

"One Identity Manager stands out for its extensive functionality."

"The most valuable feature for me is the built-in security, which is the best that I have seen."

"It's very flexible. You can customize it to the fullest extent. You can use it for almost every situation for every customer."

"One Identity enables us to provide users with permissions for only the roles that they need. We can use segmentation to ensure that users don't have roles that can cause trouble in the business."

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"It is a flexible tool because it works on JSON."

"Saviynt provides built-in access recommendations, while SailPoint IdentityNow offers access recommendations through a separate AI integration that requires additional licensing. Saviynt functions as a unified platform for various business operations, consolidating user and access data from multiple sources into a single platform. This allows for leveraging the same user base and data across different business functions, including access governance, privileged access management, data access governance, and third-party access governance. In contrast, SailPoint is a decoupled tool, requiring separate integration for managing access and permissions, especially for unstructured data. Saviynt's approach is more integrated and streamlined, providing a unified platform for access recommendations and various business operations."

"Saviynt has a lot of potential with many features available for users."

"Some of the self-service capabilities are quite powerful."

"The dedicated Freshdesk platform is a user community and a step in the right direction for offering learning resources."

"It's a highly functional system and a very well rounded solution. The onboarding of applications is solid. Their user access reviews are very good. Their role-based model and their identity life cycle stuff are solid. It's a very well rounded, strong product."

"Saviynt is easy to configure and manage."

"Saviynt risk-based access requests and intelligent access controls have made a significant impact on our company."

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Cons

"I would like them to enhance the search functionality to enable faster processing when looking for objects."

"Visually, I would like it to be more user-friendly."

"The policy and role management features are a bit hard to scale. The whole model for who can do what and how to set it up is not so well-governed for a larger organization. The demos are always shown for a 100 or a 1000 people, but when it is a large number, it is quite difficult to maintain."

"I would like to integrate automated testing with One Identity, and it would be great to have some support from the vendor on here."

"Support often lacks experienced technical personnel, resulting in long wait times and unhelpful solutions."

"The support from One Identity is very poor. The response is often delayed and lacks actionable advice, such as suggesting updates without confidence in their effectiveness."

"We are trying to get rid stability issues from the legacy version. We are now implementing version 8.2, which is so much better than version 6."

"One Identity has a self-service portal but many customers need a helpdesk where they can go in and request. To make that happen we need to do a lot of customization. Maybe that could be improved..."

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"The biggest drawback is that for every change you want to make, you have to go back to them and ask for it."

"One of the challenges regarding Saviynt is the lack of material available on the web, as searching on Google or YouTube often yields little information."

"The UI doesn’t enhance the user experience."

"According to feedback I've received, some users prefer SailPoint over Saviynt in real complex environments. SailPoint has its provisioning platform. Complex integrations may pose challenges in scenarios like a large bank with thousands of users, making SailPoint a preferred choice for some."

"While one product performed excellently, another was quite complex with code dating back 15 years."

"Both SailPoint IdentityNow and Saviynt have some bugs, but SailPoint is considered more mature with fewer bugs due to its longer establishment in the market since around 2005. SailPoint had its share of bugs in the early days, but they have resolved them over time, resulting in a stable product. Saviynt, on the other hand, was launched around 2013 or 2014 and is actively working to improve its product. Despite having some bugs, Saviynt is making progress and aims to build a stable product, but it is not there yet."

"The company needs to do more to establish standard practices within the product itself that are common in the industry."

"In terms of improvement, it's really just a matter of them getting more mature. It's a relatively new solution and they probably need to streamline a few of the processes as they mature. But there are not too many problems."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"There is a one-time licensing cost, and there is also a yearly subscription fee."

"One Identity Manager's pricing is competitive and in line with what other companies offer."

"It helps us save on licenses for applications because we are following the account lifecycle, as well as account reactivation."

"One Identity Manager is fairly priced."

"There are old processes that are really great for some people and look like pieces of artwork. However, the maintenance of them is really expensive."

"I believe the pricing is fair."

"One Identity Manager's pricing is reasonable."

"Pricing depends on licensing models, such as per-user licensing and feature-based pricing. Additional models like governance, provisioning, and reporting increase costs."

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"If you are investing in securing your data and avoiding any non-compliance issues, then yes, it is certainly recommended. To put it plainly, if you're willing to pay fines and aren't concerned about the misuse of data, then there might not be a problem. However, if you intend to safeguard the data of your employees, vendors, and customers, it becomes crucial. In this context, managing data security requires preventive and detective measures, such as enforcing segregation of duties and regularly reviewing permissions. Throughout an individual's life cycle within an organization or customer life cycle, various access permissions are granted. Without taking action on these permissions, there is a risk of exposure later on. If individuals retain access after leaving the organization, it poses a serious security threat. Implementing solutions like Saviynt can address these challenges, ensuring continuous access review, generating reports, alerts, and identifying potential risks."

"Saviynt's pricing is reasonable."

"The product is less expensive than one of the competitors."

"The pricing is comparable to Azure Entra ID. Kind of the same"

"The solution has a pay-as-you-go licensing model, and you can subscribe monthly or yearly."

"The price of the license for this product is quite expensive."

"We are not into the licensing part. The clients take care of the licensing part."

"If you need to make any changes then there are additional fees."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

16%

Manufacturing Company

Healthcare Company

Computer Software Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	46
Midsize Enterprise	19
Large Enterprise	89

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	6
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	15

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about One Identity Manager?

The One Identity birthright process has helped generate user accounts more accurately and quickly.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for One Identity Manager?

The licensing and setup cost is on the higher side, but it is delivering more features. The pricing is worth it.

What needs improvement with One Identity Manager?

One Identity Manager could be improved with more modern features such as artificial intelligence or faster workflow configuration for complex environments, expanded out-of-the-box integration with ...

What do you like most about Saviynt?

It is very easy to use. It addresses most of the trends in identity governance and risk management.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Saviynt?

Saviynt is very affordable compared to its competitors. It is cloud-based, making it significantly cheaper than on-premises solutions. This cost-effectiveness aligns well with the Saudi market, whe...

What needs improvement with Saviynt?

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Compared 5% of the time

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Compared 8% of the time

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Overview

One Identity Manager is a value-added and trusted active directory management and user provisioning software solution. One Identity Manager administers and protects an organization’s data and users, minimizes threats, and ensures that compliance regulations are consistently satisfied.

Users will have access to the data and applications they need when they need them. One Identity can be used on premises, in the cloud, and also with hybrid options. One Identity Manager is able to easily combine strict governance compliance regulations and rigorous security protocols to keep business enterprises secure and functional today and into the future. One Identity Manager is also a robust, scalable identity governance and administration (IGA) solution. The solution is designed to meet the changing needs of a growing dynamic business enterprise, and not be limited or left vulnerable by IT department constricts.

One Identity consistently provides robust security solutions that facilitate a strong secure enterprise where the users, applications, and critical data are safe and secure. The unified identity security platform provides identity governance and administration (IGA), privileged access management (PAM), active directory management and security (ADMS), and identity and access management (IAM) processes to ensure an aggressive stance on security for today’s dynamic enterprise organizations.

One Identity is used by more than 11,000 organizations worldwide managing over five hundred million plus identities.

One Identity Manager Features

Self-service options: Organizations save time and are able to get tasks completed easily. Users can request permissions or access and receive predetermined approval based on role assignments.
Password management: Organizations can easily reset user passwords based on established organizational protocols. Password policies can be determined according to user roles and assignments.
Governance: One Identity Manager offers complete visibility regarding data access, such as who has access, when the access was given, and the reasons why access was given. The solution delivers clear reporting to comply with any regulatory requirements.
SAP certified: Users are able to amplify existing SAP security protocols and seamlessly connect accounts under governance. One Identity Manager is a complete identity access solution.
Reporting: One Identity Manager delivers reliable reporting regarding user access and privileged access to an organization's network. The reporting can satisfy all government and regulatory compliance standards.
Connectors: One Identity Manager’s significant amount of available connectors enable organizations to easily extend identity governance to the cloud and will ensure cloud application time is minimized significantly.

Reviews from Real Users

“The initial setup process for an employee is straightforward. We set up processes for user accounts and we can add other processes to them. Our goal is to automate all user-permission and user-administration processes with One Identity and we are doing that more and more.” - Marc H., IT Architect at a tech services company

“The most valuable features are that it has a lot of capabilities, can integrate with a lot of systems, including automated onboarding like CyberArk, and allows you to integrate different entities.” - Security Consultant at a financial services firm

One Identity

Saviynt is an intelligent, cloud-first identity governance & access management solution. The solution is designed to help organizations quickly scale cloud initiatives and solve security and compliance challenges. Saviynt offers identity governance, granular application access, cloud security, and privileged access to secure your company’s ecosystem and provide a seamless user experience.

Saviynt Features

Saviynt has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

Mobile enablement: Saviynt provides a powerful mobile app to manage business operations such as initiating a request, managing approvals, completing certifications, viewing dashboards, and taking actions in a timely manner.

Scalability and Flexibility: Saviynt is built for enterprise scale & flexibility with an industry-leading cloud architecture.

Cloud-based: Saviynt provides you with the ability to quickly deploy and seamlessly integrate with multiple critical applications within your environment to manage risks effectively.

Rapid application & identity onboarding: With Saviynt application and identity onboarding is easy. Saviynt offers pre-built templates and discovery of unmanaged assets & applications to help speed up the process.

AI & ML powered identity analytics: By leveraging the power of AI and machine learning, Saviynt is able to identify risk and duplicate identities, and can also close access gaps.

Actionable insights: Saviynt provides actionable insights for identity management, compliance, and security via the Control Center.

Saviynt Benefits

There are several benefits to implementing Saviynt. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

Frictionless access requests: With Saviynt you can request access from anywhere, at any time.

Policy violation and SoD conflict detection: Saviynt helps your organization prevent risky access by understanding violations and conflicts for any request.

Governance: Saviynt provides governance for all human and machine identities – including third parties.

Easier provisioning: Saviynt enables you to automate lifecycle tasks in order to make cross-application provisioning easier and more efficient.

Out-of-the-box rulesets: With Saviynt’s out-of-the-box rulesets, you can automatically connect security roles to security tasks.

User friendly: Saviynt is designed with a modern web interface and has a mobile app and browser plug-in along with a ServiceNow app to make it easy to use.

Reviews from Real Users

Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by Saviynt users.

An Identity and Access Management Specialist at a non-tech company states, "The dedicated Freshdesk platform is a user community and a step in the right direction for offering learning resources. Saviynt has a lot of potential with many features available for users."

A Principal Consultant at a tech services company says, "It's a highly functional system and a very well rounded solution. The onboarding of applications is solid. Their user access reviews are very good. Their role-based model and their identity life cycle stuff are solid.”

PeerSpot user Amimesh A., Senior Associate at a tech services company, mentions, “The most valuable feature is the ease of implementation. This product works well out of the box and if you don’t want to do a lot of configuration then this is the best tool. The reporting features are good.”

Irappa H., Manager at a computer software company, comments, “The most valuable features are the workflows and certification.”

Sample Customers

Texas A&M, Sky Media, BHF Bank, Swiss Post, Union Investment, Wayne State University. More at OneIdentity.com/casestudies

Shell, McKesson, Kimberly-Clark, Ingram Micro, Intermountain Health Care, Forterra, CoreLogic